408 NOTES AND QUERIES. [«"• s. VL NOV. 24, iaoo. kind, as when (in ' The Newcomes ') he kills the mother of Lord Farintosh in one chapter and resuscitates her in a subsequent one ; but I do not think they are so common in Disraeli's writings. The famous substitution of " Capel " for Catesby in the first edition of ' Lothair ' is said not to have been a slip at all. OSWALD HUNTEK-BLAIR, O S.B. Oxford. WE must request correspondento desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. .'1— This word occurs in Cot- Brave (ed. 1673), S.D. "Mulette," in the sense of a rennet-bag, or the maw of a calf. Halliwell gives " irenese " as a Somerset word for "rennet," but the word is not known to the Somerset correspondents of the 'E.D.D.' Is Cotgrave's word in use in any part of Eng- land at the present day ? A. L. MAYHEW. Oxford. LINCOLN HOUSE, HOLBORN.— In Mr. Herbert Thurstou's recently published book on 'The Life of St. Hugh of Lincoln ' it is stated that " there can be little doubt that Lincoln House stood somewhere within the irregular space ...... enclosed between Southampton Buildings, Staple Inn, andjthe passage which unites them. It will thus have been close beside, and probably a little in the rear of, the two or three old timber houses with projecting gables which still attract the attention of the passer-by on his right hand as he travels citywards along High Holborn." Where can be found a full and accurate account of Lincoln House, the London residence in the thirteenth century of the Bishops of Lin coin, and where Bishop Hugh, the great Car thusian prelate, died on 16 November, 1200 and is there in existence any old map or print showing the position of the house which was afterwards also called South iu 1 1 j it i in House ? What is the passage above referred to? Is it the eastern part o Southampton Buildings leading to thi southern entrance to Staple Inn? Are tb " old timber houses " still standing ; or is thi a description of the Holborn front of Stapl Inn 1 H. W. V. FANFULLA. — I have recently seen a pictur labelled 'Fanfulla et ses Compagnons d Couvent.' The owner of the collection sup posed that some scene from Moliere wa. represented, but I have failed to find an auch name amongst his characters. Th subject seemed to be a tonsured Don Quixote n full armour, but without helmet, and the ' Knight" was apparently addressing his jllow-monks before dismounting from his
- osinante. Who was Fanfulla, and what is
le meaning of the representation ? T. B. 3. "GALLIMAUFRY."-! observe, ante, p. 378, lie remark that the earliest form was he O.F. calimafree, to which is added, "but ali- in this case was only a prepositional refix." May we be informed as to the " pre- K>sition" which is here so mysteriously lluded to? The latest French dictionary ives up the etymology. WALTER W. SKEAT. THE MADING TUB." —The Daily Mail of 8 September says : "The success which has Attended the introduction of John Chinaman M wash London's clothes has brought a jitter cry from the British knights and lames of the mading-tub." What is a •lading-tub ? Whence comes mading ? PALAMEDES. CUSTOM AT HILLINGDON.—In the register if the parish church of Hillingdon, Middle- sex, there occurs the following :— " July 7, 1663.—This day the hearse of the late Archbishop of Canterburie, sometime Lord High Treasurer of England, going to Oxford, where he was to be interred, had buriall here offered by me, meeting it at the Church gate with the service jook, in surplice and hood, attended by the clerk, and the great bell solemnly tolling all the while, iccording to the ancient and laudable custom in like cases." To what custom does the vicar of Hilling- don refer? H. J. GRIFFIN. " To KEECH."—Is this word ever used in the sense of to take liquid out of a vessel by means of a ladle or spoon ? It was familiar to me forty or fifty years ago in Buckinghamshire, but on using it the other day I was told no such word existed, and hava not been able to find it in any dictionary. W. ["To lade out water," Wright and Halliwell's ' Dictionary.'] DOUBLE CONSONANTS.—Can anybody ex- plain why Bayle, in spelling French words, almost as a rule spells them with a single instead of a double letter, as conoitre, oposez, aprouve, anroche, snpose, aporte, soufre, aprend, afaire? I take these from the Amsterdam Wetstein.ed. 1730, the press readers of which were very correct. The doubled letter is scarcely of use in any language. Sometimes we are purely inconsistent. Letter must have two t's, literal one. The double letter very seldom affects the pronunciation. Would it
